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Thursday, 17 August 2017

Mortals becoming Gods and Goddesses

I posted an answer to a question on Quora "How can a mortal become god/goddess in Greek mythology?" It was solely about Greek mythology but I also included non-Greek myth examples. This is what I wrote:

Yes.
In real life, mortals became deified. Its similar to cannonising people
into sainthood today. Okay a list of deified mortals in Greek myth
includes:

Psyche

Hercules

Ariadne

Dioscuri (Helen of Troy’s twin brothers)

Luekeothea

Asklepios

Ganymedes

Palaimon
(Edited: I want to add some more deified mortal women that includea Ino, Bolina, Hilaera, Hemithea and Parthenos. )

Eating a mermaid, according to Japanese folklore, a young nun ate some ningyo meat and became immortal… she lived for 800 years.

Reverted
elixir or haundan is used to help the body’s cells continue and keep
working and working until the body never ages. Its cinnabar and Taoists
regard it as an element of purifying the body. This method became lost
in time when wealthy people in the Tang dynesty ate some and died. The
true ways of getting this to harmlessly ingest and cause immortality has
been forgotten.

Ingesting
extinct plants caused immortality (or to be exact, a very polonged
life). Peaches were once thought to give immortality but these fruits
have become domesticated and ordinary now. Other fruits to give
immortality are golden apples. These are found in a secret unknown
orchard guarded by a goddess and a dragon. Ambrosia, a special honey drink or mead with an ingrediant lost in time gives immortality.